Directed by:
Leo McCareyCinematography:
William C. MellorCast:
Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell, Porter Hall, Barbara Read, Maurice Moscovitch, Minna Gombell, Louise Beavers, Leo McCarey, Ellen Drew (more)VOD (1)
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Make Way for Tomorrow, by Leo McCarey, is one of the great unsung Hollywood masterpieces, an enormously moving Depression-era depiction of the frustrations of family, aging, and the generation gap. Beulah Bondi and Victor Moore headline a cast of incomparable character actors, starring as an elderly couple who must move in with their grown children after the bank takes their home, yet end up separated and subject to their offspring’s selfish whims. An inspiration for Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story, this is among American cinema’s purest tearjerkers, all the way to its unflinching ending, which McCarey refused to change despite studio pressure. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Victor Moore
USA
Best movies:
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Swing Time (1936)
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
Beulah Bondi
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Fay Bainter
USA
Best movies:
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
The Children's Hour (1961)
Jezebel (1938)
Thomas Mitchell
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Porter Hall
USA
Best movies:
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Barbara Read
Canada
Best movies:
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Maurice Moscovitch
Russian Empire
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Love Affair (1939)
Minna Gombell
USA
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Louise Beavers
USA
Best movies:
Freaks (1932)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
Leo McCarey
USA
Best movies:
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Ellen Drew
USA
Best movies:
If I Were King (1938)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
Gene Lockhart
Canada
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Madame Curie (1943)
Louis Natheaux
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
Modern Times (1936)
After the Thin Man (1936)
Byron Foulger
USA
Best movies:
Song of Love (1947)
Edison, the Man (1940)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Don Brodie
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Little Big Man (1970)
Ralph Brooks
USA
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
It Started with Eve (1941)
William Newell
USA
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Fury (1936)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Granville Bates
USA
Best movies:
Of Mice and Men (1939)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
The Mortal Storm (1940)
Louis Jean Heydt
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Cyril Ring
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)